Saturday, January 10, 2026, 10:00AM - 12:00PM
Meeting will take place in the Poetry Center's Alumni Room, Room 205; limit 12 students. General registration opens on Friday, December 12th at 10:00AM.
Poets and other writers often express that we know a piece has succeeded when it is genuinely surprising. Sometimes we are pointing to formal or narrative surprise but, just as often, the surprise comes from the writing’s disclosure of something that the writer themself did not yet know (or no longer knew). Poetry, that is, is a way of accessing and giving form to the unconscious, to the parts of ourselves we have yet to fully encounter. This generative workshop will ask participants to experiment with techniques for talking to what is hidden in us, somehow ahead of us. Please arrive with something (a diary entry, an old poem of yours, a photograph…) that represents, to you, a younger version of yourself.